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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 27-6-107

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.

Where an appeal in the nature of a writ of error is dismissed on the ground that the record was not brought up within the time prescribed by the rules of the court, the appellant may, notwithstanding, prosecute a writ of error within the same time, and under the same regulations, as if no appeal in the nature of a writ of error had been taken in the case.